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ASHEBORO — Kaila Craven has scored more points than any other player ever to wear a Southwestern Randolph High School basketball jersey, yet it wasn’t a reverse layup, 3-point shot or step-back two-pointer that may have been the play of the game Monday night as the Cougars defeated Ashbrook 61-55 in the second round of the state 3-A tournament.

The 2015 spring sports season opened Monday as the Asheboro High School varsity boys tennis team beat Central Davidson 5-4 in Mid-Piedmont Conference play at Memorial Park. Austin Allen, Blake Ferree and Ashton Russell had singles wins for the Blue Comets (1-0, 1-0), while Allen and Miles Farlow and Russell and Richard Pincus teamed up for doubles wins. Here, Pincus returns a serve from CD’s Jeremy Hargrave during their No. 2 singles match. Asheboro traves to Western Guilford on Thursday.

ASHEBORO — With as much time off as the Asheboro High School varsity boys basketball team has had over the last two weeks, it was pretty easy to assume the first few minutes of Saturday’s first-round state playoff game with White Oak wasn’t going to be pretty. And it wasn’t.

HAMPTON, Ga. — The No. 44 race car returned to its NASCAR shop in North Carolina on Saturday after it was recovered along a remote road in suburban Atlanta, apparently abandoned by the thieves who stole it from a hotel parking lot.

CHAPEL HIL — Inside the Chapel Hill church where Dean Smith had a regular seat on the back row, family, friends and former players gathered privately Thursday to celebrate the coach whose fight, accomplishments and values transcended the bounds of a basketball court.

Jerry Tarkanian, the droopy-eyed, towel-chomping college basketball coach who transformed Nevada Las Vegas into a glitzy powerhouse as he waged a decades-long war against the National Collegiate Athletic Association, died Wednesday. He was 84.

CHARLOTTE — Carolina Panthers defensive end Greg Hardy might be cleared from a legal standpoint after his domestic violence charges were dismissed this week, but Hardy is now under investigation by the NFL.